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🚨 Court Watch LA Statement for the Election of Nathan Hochman & the Passing of Prop 36: Newly elected regressive DA emboldened by repackaged War on Drugs proposition
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🚨 COMMUNITY SUPPORT REQUEST! 🚨
🗓️ TUES, OCT. 15, 2024
⏰ 8:30AM - 12:00PM
📍 Inglewood Courthouse
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🚨 COMMUNITY SUPPORT REQUEST! 🚨
🗓️ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024
⏰ 8:30AM - 12:00PM
📍 POMONA COURTHOUSE SOUTH
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September Group #CourtWatch dates just dropped!
🗓️ TUES., SEPT. 24 | 9-11:30 AM | West Covina
🗓️ MON., SEPT. 30 | 9-11:30 AM | Long Beach
Details in the calendar on your CW dashboard! Print the newest session sheet & your notebook! #JudicialAccountability #JudicialTransparency
🤝 August Group #CourtWatch Opportunities:
🗓️ THU 8-15 (Torrance), and TUES 8-27 (El Monte), from 9-11:30 AM
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The most difficult case to watch involved an elderly black woman who did not understand the court process.
The commissioner became obviously frustrated and demonstrated this through his bodily language of clenching his fists and grinding his teeth.
I observed commissioner Marcelo D’asero at Stanley Mosk Courthouse and witnessed eviction cases. I arrived at 9am and the courtroom was full with people. When I arrived it was a tense courtroom, the commissioner was already getting frustrated and raising his voice.
There was bias against people who did not understand the court process, specifically tenants who were representing themselves. And there was bias in favor of landlords who had legal representation.
🤝 Group #CourtWatch Opportunities:
🗓️ MON 7-15 (Compton Courthouse), and TUES 7-30 (Glendale Courthouse, from 9-11:30 AM
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More takeaways from our recently released report “Presumed Guilty: The Pretrial Incarceration Crisis in LA County,” based on data gathered by court watchers. Get the full report at: CourtWatchLA.org/2024-Report 👀 #WatchTheCourts #CourtWatch
In general, Judge Guillemet is extremely biased towards the prosecution. All day long, I did not once witness the prosecution make a single legal argument.
Additionally, the bailiff in Courtroom 30 is extremely aggressive and rude. He yells at people for smiling at the defendants, hovers over attendees, and even gave me an "I'm watching you" hand signal as soon as I walked in.
It is pretty horrible to hear Judge Guillemet call the people in custody by numbers when speaking to counsel about them. This is clear that she does not care to humanize them because other judges make it a practice to call them by their last name.
In one particular case, she made it a point to give the defendant a moment of advice and told him it should serve as a learning experience when she granted him OR (release on his own recognizance) and took his age and no criminal history into account to release him.